I've yet to try one so I wouldn't know. Bottle caps are one of the most numerous things you'll pick up on a beach clean so I can see why it's become a rule. Recycling rules have been changed so often that it gets confusing but it seems like 'crush the bottle and reattach the cap' is the way to go now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Quite a few villages around here, including ours, have a 20mph speed limit. Not a problem for us, as the roads are narrow, hilly, with bends, and there are very few pavements. It’s a sensible speed limit when there are so many walkers, dogs and horses sharing the road. The sections of road which are 30mph limit in our village ought to be reduced to 20mph too. For most stretches of road, two cars can’t pass each other without pulling across private driveways, 20 gives you time to slow and pull in, at 30, especially tourists and non locals, somebody ends up having to reverse. I had to laugh at a colleague who grew up in another local village, telling me that by the time she passed her driving test, she could drive backwards as fast as she could forwards!
We've had 20 mph limits here for a while, everywhere except the main through roads. I don't have a problem with it but lots of people still go faster than that. I'll need to be careful when I go to Wales if the 20mph applies on main roads through towns/villages because I'm not used to that.
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I think we have a decent balance between 20 and 30 mph limits around here. 20's are almost entirely limited to residential areas with either narrow roads, a lot of foot traffic or both. The only area I'm aware of where this isn't the case is on suburb where they all think they are posh and clearly bent some influential ears. Their roads don't fall into any of the categories above.
I'm afraid I have a heavy right foot but when in a 30mph limit I hit the cruise control. That way I can't cheat. Banging along country roads and then coming to a village 30mph feels very slow. My cruise control doesn't work under 25mph so if 20mph becomes a thing over here I'll have to put a brick under my accelerator.
The change that does seem to be causing accidents in Norwich is giving cyclists and pedestrians on cycle path pavements precedence over vehicles turning across the ‘path’ into and out of sideroads. Surely that has always been the case @Dovefromabove? I remember during my driving test a couple, their friend and their baby in a buggy decided to stop for a chat in the middle of the side road I was turning on to. There I sat with my a$$ in the breeze and the sweat breaking on me waiting for them to move! I accused my examiner of setting booby traps at that point as I'd already had the little-old-lady-in-the-kinitted-hat-who-jumps-out-in-front-of-you-at-the-pelican-crossing episode a minute before!
We've had 30kph limits here for years and an increase in 50kph in places that used to be 70, all accompanied by speed bumps and those little solar powered screens that shout at you for going over the limit or smile when you're being good.
There's a tolerance of 3 or 4kph , above which the radars or police will get you.
Not easy for those of us with a heavy foot but do-able with practice. Both our cars indicate fuel consumption per 100km at all times. Significantly higher at 30 and 50 than at 80 but safer for any pedestrian, scooter or cyclist that gets in the way. Lots of scooters here and all have to use the road, not the pavement. Very scary, even where there's a cycle lane.
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Why, when talking finance and percentages do they go into stupid speak? Why 25 basis points - why not .25%? Everyone knows what a percent is, but who knows what a basis point is?
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The sections of road which are 30mph limit in our village ought to be reduced to 20mph too. For most stretches of road, two cars can’t pass each other without pulling across private driveways, 20 gives you time to slow and pull in, at 30, especially tourists and non locals, somebody ends up having to reverse.
I had to laugh at a colleague who grew up in another local village, telling me that by the time she passed her driving test, she could drive backwards as fast as she could forwards!
Loads of places round here are 20mph zones and I have no difficulty at all in keeping to the limit.
The change that does seem to be causing accidents in Norwich is giving cyclists and pedestrians on cycle path pavements precedence over vehicles turning across the ‘path’ into and out of sideroads.
Surely that has always been the case @Dovefromabove? I remember during my driving test a couple, their friend and their baby in a buggy decided to stop for a chat in the middle of the side road I was turning on to. There I sat with my a$$ in the breeze and the sweat breaking on me waiting for them to move! I accused my examiner of setting booby traps at that point as I'd already had the little-old-lady-in-the-kinitted-hat-who-jumps-out-in-front-of-you-at-the-pelican-crossing episode a minute before!
There's a tolerance of 3 or 4kph , above which the radars or police will get you.
Not easy for those of us with a heavy foot but do-able with practice. Both our cars indicate fuel consumption per 100km at all times. Significantly higher at 30 and 50 than at 80 but safer for any pedestrian, scooter or cyclist that gets in the way. Lots of scooters here and all have to use the road, not the pavement. Very scary, even where there's a cycle lane.